SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Evening Star, Issue 22974, 3 June 1938, Page 9

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

WITHDRAWAL OF FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS SOVIET'S ATTITUDE CREATES NEW SITUATION (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, June 2. (Received June 3, at 11.30 a.m.) The Chairman’s Suh-committee of the Non-intervention Committee, at its eighty-eighth meeting, considered a further revise of the draft resolution providing for the withdrawal of foreign volunteers, for granting in certain circumstances belligerent rights to the two parties in Spain, and for observation of Spanish frontiers by land and sea.

The committee examined each of the outstanding questions. The Soviet representative made a lengthy statement. Lord Plymouth said the situation created by this statement was that as regards the three questions embodied in the recent British proposals, to which the Soviet hitherto had been unable to agree—namely, the first method to be adopted by the commissions in counting and classifying foreign volunteers ; secondly, the date of restoration of international observation of the Franco-Spanish frontier; and, thirdly, strengthening the sea observation scheme—the Soviet was prepared now to accept the first of these proposals and the second also, provided that if the actual withdrawal of volunteers did not start on the date prescribed in the plan there would be no further extension of the period in which international observation should bo in force on the Franco-Spanish frontier. The Soviet’s agreement to the above points was, however, conditional upon acceptance by tbe International Committee of an arrangement by which international observing officers would be permanently stationed in all Spanish ports where it was possible to unload war material or land troops.

The meeting agreed to consider the new situation created by tbe Soviet’s statement, and will meet again bn June 10.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA RECOGNISES FRANCO BURGOS, June 2. (Received June 3, at 1 p.m.) Czechoslovakia has recognised General Franco’s Government. *' Rebel jplanes on the Teruel front shot down, six loyalist bombers, which were blown to atoms by the explosion of their freights as they struck the gound. LOYALIST SYMPATHISERS TRUCK FROM ITALIAN WOMEN. BARCELONA, June 2. (Received June 3, at 1 p.m.) Many ambulances and food supplies are arriving from sympathetic coiintries,, the latest being a truck labelled: “ From Italian women who implore the pardon of Spanish children for the brutal Italian bombardments.”